Fight Club: The Movie & Book

Fight Club written by Chuck Palahnuik and directed by David Fincher for the big screen is really interesting and directly relevant to one of the pathways I'm very interested in for my Product, Range & Distribution project on the theme of 'fighting' which is still a pretty broad umbrella term I'm going with.

One of the themes of Fight Club is escapism, repressed desires and just wanting to feel "alive" which is a recurrent notion I've come across loads on the subject of fighting. It's a pretty anti-capitalist film and flips self-improvement on it's head and instead maybe suggests self-destruction in order to improve..

Important uotes:


"How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?"

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

"After fight club, we all started seeing things differently."

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.” 

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

My favourite:

Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.” 


“Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.” 

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.” 

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes. working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we dont need.”


“I’m breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.” 

“I don't want to die without any scars.” 

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” 



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These all in my opinion capture the film and then notion of going against society, stop being a sheep and a spoke in the wheel of our capitalist society and instead rebel, live and overcome adversity - in this case through a fight club. I'll definitely watch the movie again and make notes and I'm sure I'll get ideas If I go down this route.

At the moment I'm 50/50 between going down a fight club route, basically pushing people to fight, but obviously in a controlled and legal manner, or on the other hand I want to really look into fighting spirituality in terms of disciplines and codes such as Bushido.